30.2348, TOC: Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 29 / 1 (2019)

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Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 17:04:50
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Journal of Asian Pacific Communication Vol. 29, No. 1 (2019)

 
Publisher:	John Benjamins
			http://www.benjamins.com/ 
			
Journal Title:  Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 
Volume Number:  29 
Issue Number:  1 
Issue Date:  2019 


Subtitle:  Special Issue: Vagueness and Elasticity of 'Sort of' in TV Discussion Discourse in the Asian Pacific   


Main Text:  

2019. v, 147 pp.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1

Introduction

‘Sort of’ across languages of the Asia and Oceania regions
Vahid Parvaresh and Grace Zhang 
Pages 2–8

Articles

Sort of in Australian English: The elasticity of a pragmatic marker
Jean Mulder, Cara Penry Williams and Erin Moore 
Pages 9–32

On the functions of sort of in New Zealand TV programs
Peyman G. P. Sabet 
Pages 33–61

The pragmatic use of ‘sort of’ in TV forums: A Chinese perspective
Grace Zhang 
Pages 62–85

Pragmatic functions of ‘sort of’ in Persian: A vague language perspective
Vahid Parvaresh and Sayyed Amir Sheikhan 
Pages 86–110

‘Sort of’ in Indonesian television discourse
Indah Tri Purwanti 
Pages 111–132

Book reviews

Review of Kádár, Dániel Z. (2017) Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual:
Maintaining the Moral Order in Interpersonal Interaction
Reviewed by Lili Gong and Yongping Ran 
Pages 133–139

Review of Fedriani, Chiara & Andrea Sansò, (Eds.) (2017) Pragmatic Markers,
Discourse Markers and Modal Particles
Reviewed by Peyman G. P. Sabet 
Pages 140–147
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                     English (eng)
                     Persian, Iranian (pes)

Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic
                      Altaic 


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